Essays on interesting and useful subjects, with a few introductory remarks on English composition1830 |
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... the obstacles in your way , and that very little can be done towards their removal , yet that little , I hope , may render your first steps easier , by merely pointing out the track , in which your progress must 9 2 LETTER I.
... the obstacles in your way , and that very little can be done towards their removal , yet that little , I hope , may render your first steps easier , by merely pointing out the track , in which your progress must 9 2 LETTER I.
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... render it impossible entirely to avoid men of avowedly depraved morals , and expose us to the still more dangerous society of those who cloke their bad lives under decorous and amiable demeanour , and seek to undermine our principles ...
... render it impossible entirely to avoid men of avowedly depraved morals , and expose us to the still more dangerous society of those who cloke their bad lives under decorous and amiable demeanour , and seek to undermine our principles ...
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... render it so , may , on the other hand , be done in a manner so entirely mechanical , that the understanding has no part in it : and , in such a process , there can be neither pleasure nor profit . LETTER II . MY DEAR SON , I OBSERVED ...
... render it so , may , on the other hand , be done in a manner so entirely mechanical , that the understanding has no part in it : and , in such a process , there can be neither pleasure nor profit . LETTER II . MY DEAR SON , I OBSERVED ...
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... render the whole of them unnecessary . Every thing that you discover for yourself is far more valuable than it would have been if imparted to you by another : on this ac- count , I shall not suggest any more maxims for your guidance ...
... render the whole of them unnecessary . Every thing that you discover for yourself is far more valuable than it would have been if imparted to you by another : on this ac- count , I shall not suggest any more maxims for your guidance ...
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... render you also vigilant and careful in writing ; yet avoid passing hasty censure upon that which you read , until time and cultivation have improved your judg- ment . Remember , that " ten censure wrong , for one who writes amiss ...
... render you also vigilant and careful in writing ; yet avoid passing hasty censure upon that which you read , until time and cultivation have improved your judg- ment . Remember , that " ten censure wrong , for one who writes amiss ...
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Page 13 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 26 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...
Page 201 - God, in the nature of each being, founds Its proper bliss, and sets its proper bounds: But as he framed a whole, the whole to bless, On mutual wants built mutual happiness: So from the first eternal Order ran, And creature link'd to creature, man to man.
Page 167 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, "While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Page 127 - Open, ye everlasting gates !' they sung; ' Open, ye Heavens, your living doors ; let in The great Creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days...
Page 170 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 88 - Soft peace she brings wherever she arrives; She builds our quiet as she forms our lives; Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven.
Page 147 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Page 218 - ... and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt' and therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page 20 - ... scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons: rem tibi Socraticae poterunt ostendere chartae, 310 verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur. qui didicit patriae quid debeat et quid amicis, quo sit amore parens, quo frater amandus et hospes, quod sit conscripti, quod iudicis officium, quae partes in bellum missi ducis, ille profecto 315 reddere personae scit convenientia cuique.